Port areas and even spaces where there are now homes, shops or hospitality establishments, entire neighborhoods at risk of flooding. He climate change It is not a thing of the future, or at least not of a distant future. Talk later over a period of 30 years.
The report on satellite studies carried out by NASA for 30 years through its Sea Level Change team, concludes that eOcean levels have risen about 9.4 centimeters since 1993. The problem is that this rise, which in itself is not minor, is going to accelerate in the coming years according to this international organization. Accelerated to the point of adding 20 more centimeters to sea level.
Ports like Foz disappear
This would affect, for example, areas such as A Mariña de Lugo, that is, the entire Cantabrian strip. Ports like Foz, Rinlo or Burela would be flooded. Even part of the urban center of Navia or the Ence factory.
We are talking about public infrastructure and also private properties that would remain under water in the near future. In addition to the increased risk of flooding or the effects of spring tides.
The rise in water level could end up causing, according to these reports, that reach several schools in the region, municipal swimming pools or convents.
Rate of sea level rise doubles
According to NASA data, the rate of increase of 0.18 recorded in 1993 has now reached 0.42, which represents doubling the change in the next 30 years. “Current acceleration rates mean we are on track to add another 20 centimeters to global mean sea level by 2050, doubling the amount of change over the next three decades compared to the previous 100 years,” explains Nadya Vinogradova Shiffer, director from NASA’s sea level change team and the ocean physics program in Washington. 30 years versus 100.
The conclusion seems clear. If the level of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere continues at the rate we are currently doing, the risk, according to these institutions, is clear. Risk that affects us all.
Sea level rise
One of the effects of climate change is the rise in sea level. According to data published in National Geographic, sea levels have risen about 23 centimeters on average since 1880, and “nearly half of those centimeters have risen in the last 25 years.”
According to data from the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), In the next 30 years sea level will rise as much as it did in the last century.
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